An analysis show Rep. Jim Matheson, D-UT, was most likely to co-sponsor bills with Republicans in Congress, and Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, was ranked #2 for being able to get bills out of committee.--Utah Policy

Rantosphere

Holly on the Hill takes a swipe at Utah's culture of corruption revealed by the investigations into the Attorney General's office.

“Ending the culture of corruption must go further than the resignation of John Swallow. The bullying must end. The win-at-all costs mentality must change. The politics of personal destruction must be condemned. If Jason Powers is out of the picture, but candidates are willing to hire those who would take his spot, no good will have come of all this.”--Holly on the Hill

The Long View

Foreign Policy looks at the the troubling problem of the Mexican drug war's disappearances of hundreds of thousands of citizens.

“But unlike the dirty-war disappearances, which followed a sinister logic in targeting specific sectors of the population, there is no single explanation for why so many people have gone missing in Mexico's drug war, or for what has happened to them. I have spent over three years investigating more than 300 disappearances across 11 Mexican states for Human Rights Watch. I've found that, if these disappearances share anything in common, it is that the government has done almost nothing to try to find the missing. And it has consistently failed to pursue the obvious lines of evidence that, in case after case -- including Israel Arenas Durán's -- point to collusion between the cartels and the very soldiers and police sent to combat them.”--Foreign Policy